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be BREVARD NEWS Published Every Thursday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Entered at tne Postoffice in Brevard, N. C., as Second Class Matter i James P. Barrett Editor Mark T. Orr Associate Editor ? ? H SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Advance) One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months 60 . ? . .j H Thursday, August 4, 1932. i ALKISG WITH A MINISTER ABOUT HIS PROBLEMS. In these days of trials and tribula tions each fellow seems to think his lot is the hardest lot of all. This fact was most forcibly brought to mind one day recently in conversation with a minister in a nearby town. He de clared that a minister's life now is just about the hardest lot a man can find to browse about in. This was a sur prising statement, until the minister made further explanation for his words. "Just imagaine, if you can," the preacher said, "trying to preach Jesus Christ to a congregation when men I love are sitting there in the house of God, belonging to the same church, who will not speak to one an other. How can I bring God, the es sence of Love, to men who hate one another with such intensity?" Now, we are ready to admit, that is a problem, indeed. That preacher cannot bring God to men who hate one another, for they are violators of His greatest law, therefore, they can not see God. He will not abide in any man's heart where hate reigns sup reme. No loud "'Aniens," no loud praying, no loud singing, no long, sanctimonious look, can fool God one little bit, nor does it fool the people in God's house or on the street. Any man who has hate in his heart for his fellow-man is nothing but a plain hypocrite, fooling no one but himself, when he makes protestations of hav ing religion in his heart and life. Religion and hate do not mix; cannot mix. This thing called religion cannot be used for the purpose of glorifying God and crucifying man. No one can lift up the cross of Christ and tram ple under foot his fellow man. No one but a fool thinks he can get by with it, for he fools no one but him self. The preacher must be having a dif ficult task to perform when he has members in his church who will not speak to one another, who hate one another. That is, indeed, a more dif ficult task facing the minister than the merchant experiences in his busi ness, the farmer in running his farm. TRAXSYLVAXIA COUNTY IX GREAT SEED OF THE WORK Officers of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce and members of the Board of County Commissioners are to be commended for their efforts in behalf of this county just now. These agencies are working hard to get Chairman Jeffress of the State High way Commission to see the necessity of widening and surfacing Highway 284 from the Pisgah National Forest to the Waynesville side. This work is e.ssential not only to complete the net work of highways, but for the more immediate need of giving the citizens of this section some work to do. The United States government is sending into this State some six millions of dollars for road work, being actuated almost entirely with the purpose of relieving unemployment. If there is a section in the State of North Carolina where road work is needed for the purpose of providing employment, that section is to be found right here in Transylvania county. Three weeks more, and the summer camps will close, the tourists will leave for their homes, and then what activity we have in the com munity will come to an end, except the regular industrial plants and these have all they can do, and more, to take care of their own people. It is agreed that business conditions are showing signs of improvement in many sections; stocks are rising on the stock market, industrial centers are adding workers to their renewed activities, yet all of this means ab solutely nothing to this immediate community except the gratitude that others are finding the way a little better than heretofore. Just what this community will do when the summer season ends and the campers and tourists ge home is more than anyone can tell. We believe that Chairman Jeffress, when the true facts are unfoldsd to kim, will re spond to the appeal of the Chamber of Commerce and 'the county commis sioners, and make his first orders em brace the work on Highway 284. Next Spring- will fee too late for this work, I if the community is to profit by the , act oi Congress is providing these i funds for road work. NOW is the best time that this new money could bo spent in this community. Each and every interested citizen, the ministers, business men, farmers and workers, ought to write Chair man Jpffress, of the State Highway Commission, and set forth the need of the hour. We believe he will re spond quickly when once impressed with the seriousness of the situation. Of course this need applies only to the wage-earners. The farmers of the county have their food in abundance, while a large number of them have farm products for sale. It is that group of our citizens who must work for wages that is feeling the need of the opportunity to work. And their need is great, more so than many people hereabouts realize. CONDITIONS SHOWING GREAT improvements IN nation. It is gratifying to every citizen to read of the signs of business recovery given each day in the press reports. Men returning to work by the thousands, market values increasing, farm products showing steady gain in prices. All of this brings encour agement to a people that had about reached the end of their endurance, it seemed. In present trouble we too often forget things that have happen ed in the past. It may be encouraging to snme to refresh their memories of dark days in the past, and the great forward movement that has followed each and every period of despair. Following is a short review of panics of the past from which the cowntry recovered: Between 1837 and 1842, all banks suspended specie payments, the South was bankrupt, nearly all factories were closed, poorhouses were crowd ed, 600 banks failed, starvation threatened. Out country was es tablished in 1845 with full compre hension of depression characteristics. 1857 Confidence gone, banks failing, business demoralized, debts uncol lectible, brokers ruined, runs on banks followed by closing of mills and factories, evoryone existing on credit or exchange of commodities. 1837 StocK excnange closed for nearly two weeks, 36 stock exchange houses failed withir. few days, $750, 000,000 railroad bonds in default, strikes and riots followed wage cuts, mills and factories closed, banks had recourse to clearing house certificates. 1893 Craze for formation of great trusts followed by failures on every hand, 467 banks failed in a few months, factories closed, 169 railroads failed, multitudes of hungry unem ployed rioted in streets of large cities; receivers appointed for seveial railroads, money was hoarded and small bills sold at a premium, twice as many were unemployed (per thousand of population) as are un employed today. 1907 Stock market collapsed after boom similar to that of 1928 and 1929, call money loaned at 100 per cent, millions of unemployed, bank and business failures were everyday incidents, president of the great Knickerbocker Trust committed suicide. 1921 Great depreciation in stock prices, frequent failures, deep gloom and pessimism for the future, manu facturers and merchants and cus tomers buying only what was absolutely necessary, millions out of work. AND NOW? Conditions have been much worse than today s. Good times always have followed. Prosperity al ways has returned in greater measure. All depressions have been caused by the same major factors. The present wealth of the country is many times greater than in any former panic. We shall win again ? and, if necessary, again! A GREATER AND FINER CIVILIZATION WILL BE RESULT OF REVOLUTION. People who fear revolutions should delight in the knowledge gained in the study of history that every rev olution has brought about a finer civ ilization than that manifest in the dying days of the decayed institution. We do not wonder that young men and women look with awe upon their future, for this generation has most assuredly made a mess of things, and we leave a tremendous task of clean ing-up for the generation just now , coming into the estate of manhood and womanhood. There is this consolation, however, for the young people. They will nevei witness the accumulation of wealth as this passing generation has wit nessed it, insofar as centralization of wealth is concerned. Not within a hundred years to come will there be ' another Rockfeller fortune, or that of a Mellon, or a Henry Ford, garnered I by one man or one concern. These j fortunes are now rapidly dwindling. , and even the masters ol finance in this age cannot recoup their decreas ing fortunes. Within the next decade the tax on inheritance will be so great that no one can inherit more than a modest amount of money. Not ever again in America will great fortunes be hand ed down from father to son. Income taxes also will be increased in such manner that no one man's income ca.i exceed a certain modest figure. The money from these taxes will be con verted to an old age pension fund, thus removing from the lives of the poor the harrowing fear of an old I age in poverty. Poor houses will be I done away with, and charity as we I now know it will gradually pass into J discard. Unemployment insurance will j cpme into its own one day, a creature j of this new generation now making j ready to assume control of affairs, j Things that would now appear most i radical in complexion will be the ac cepted order of the day at no distant date. | Petty prejudices will be supplantod by a more thorough understanding of the value of human life and human happiness in the days that are to come. There will be more work and more worth, less luxury and less loll ing, a minimum of misery and a max imum of genuine joy in the New Day that is to be ushered in by this new generation of young men and young women. i ( BONUS WARFARE BROUGHT NEARER HOME. Communications received in Bre vard by relatives and friends from Miss Laura Verner, nurse in the Emergency Hospital at Washington, gives local color to the recent bonus war fought between the U. S. reg ulars and members of the Bonus Ex peditionary Force. Miss Verner de- ' voted two or three days of her entire time and attention to nursing the wounded who were rushed from the scene of battle to the Emergency Hos pital. The affair was more serious than casual reading of the news papers led one to believe, judging from Miss Verner's letter. I Miss Verner is the daughter of I Prof, and Mrs. S. P. Verner, leaders j in educational work here. I | A PARABLE ON TOBACCO j j ( Contributed by Guy Galloway) Then shall the kingdom of Satan ! be likened unto a grain of tobacco | seed which though exceedingly small was cast into the earth and sprang up and grew until it became a great and mighty plant and shot forth rank and broad leaves on every side insomuch that huge and vile worms found a habitation there on. And it came to pass that the sons 1 ' of men looked upon the plant and , thought it beautiful and exceedingly | desirable to make lads look big and j manly. And so they did put forth i their hands and did take and did chew i the same. And some it made sick and some it made drunken and others it | caused to v?mit most filthily. And it 1 came to pass that they were all taken j with a great and mighty spitting, in- : sornuch that they did spit even in | ladies' parlors and in the house of the | Lord of Host. And it came to pass j that they became weak and unmanly insomuch that they said "'We cannot quit this chewing, we are enslaved. But others took of the plant and curi , ningly wrought it into rolls and did | set fire to one end thereof and did ? suck vehemently at the other end and j did look exceedingly grave and calf , like, and the smoke of their torment j ascendeth up for evei and ever. But others took of the plant and did grind it into fine powder and did store the | same away in bottles and boxes, and it came to pass that the matrons an(' tre fair maidens of the land did pro- ! cure these bottles and boxes and did ! take sticks and did chew one end i thereof and did thrust the same into i the fine powder and did rub vehem- ; ently across their front teeth and the j yellow juice did run down the corners ? of their mouths. And it came to pass that the traffic in tobacco became a great and mighty business in the earth insomuch that the merchants : waxed rich thereon. And it came to ; pass that even the poor took the money with which they should buy bread and shoes and books a-d cloth | ing for their children and did spend it for tobacco. And the thing displeas ed the Lord and He said unto them. Turn from your abominations and ,from your filthiness, cease your puff j ing, spitting and chewing. Convert ' your tobacco fields into wheat field' : and stop all this waste, and they all iwith one consent cried out and said, "we cannot; we are enslaved." J. C. LEDFORD. Bloomfield, Ky. 13-Year Old Girf Shows Improvement Cincinnati, 0. ? Mrs. W. B. Logan, Cincinnati, Ohio, recently said: "My little 13-year-old granddaughter was nothing but skin and bones. She would go to the table and never eat a mouth ful. We simply could not make her cat. I started giving her a teaspoon ful of Sargon three times a day be fore meals. Now she's simply eating her head off and doesn't ?look like the same child.'" LONG'S DRUG STORE Brevard, N. C. F. James, Congressional Candidate (POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT) . Strong indorsement of Hon. Crawford F. James, Marion manufacturer and Republican candidate for Congress in this district, has been nuculc end is being broadcast by a group of leading citizens of Marion. Those signing the statement setting forth, reasons why Mr. James should be elected to Congress are as fol iates: W. R. Chambers, leading attorney and Presidential Elector at Large on the Hoover-Curtis ticket in North Carolina; P. H. Mashburn, former, sheriff of McDowell county for a period of ten years, former member of the legislature, former State Senator, and at present the president of the Bank of Old Fort ; G. F. Wash burn, well known attorney and Chairman of the Mc Dowell Republican Executive Committee ; E. H\ Par ker, Marion, manufacturer; C. C. Lisenbee, outstand ing attorney; J. L. Morgan, banker, manufacturer and farmer; Dr. B. L. Ashxoorth, prominent, physician; John Yancey, farmer and financier; C. R. McCaU, oromincnl business man and former Sheriff of Mc Dowell county. The above named leading citizens hare been cloxcly associated with Crawford F. Jartn?s for the ;xi si twenty years, and the follwving staterment is made to the pub lic concerning the Republican candidate for Congress: CRAWFORD F. JAMES Crawford F. James, manufacturer, of Marion, North Carolina, was nominated at the Canton convention on April 20 as the candidate of the Republican Party for a seat in the National Congress. I While he has long been a leader in the McDowell county J political activities, Mr. James is in no sense of the j word a polttician. He became the party's nominee for j Congress in this campaign because leaders and mem bers of the Party demanded that a successful business man be offered as the Party's choice for a place in Congress, to the end that our great business President, Herbert Hoover, might have the support in Congress of a man from our district who is well versed in busi ness affairs. It was only after much persuasion that Mr. James consented to accept the nomination that would force him to leave his own business interests and devote his time to the Nation's business. When the matter was presented to him from the standpoint of patriotic duty, then, and then only, would he consent I to make the race. In order to properly portray the wonderful success J that he has attained in life, it is necessary that this brief sketch begin back yonder when Mr. James was a small child. He is a native of the foothills of Rutherford county, but being the son of a millwright, his parents lived in many towns and cities of the Carolinas. Wherever new textile mills were being built, Mr. James father was pressed into service in erecting the mills and supervising the installation of the machinery. It followed that the James family did nci: live long in any one place, and this resulted in Crawford James receiving but little schooling. Before he was nine years of age. Crawford James was working regularly in the textile mills, receiving a wage of nine cents a day during his first year's work. Finally he was advanced to $2 a week, and this was his first big job, but his happiness was short-lived, because his mother died when he was 32 years of age. Soon thereafter Crawford James went out "on his own," obtained a job in a mill in Charlotte, and started attending a night school, determined to make up for the time lost from the school room. He worked every day and studied late into the night. His earnestness, his evident desire to "get on,'' attracted the attention of mill officials, Sunday School workers and the people of the church. He was aided in his studies by many men and women, and it is said of him that but few boys ever made such progress in pursuit of an educa tion as that chalked up to the credit of Crawford James. With his natural aptitude at mill work and the rapid progress made in his school work, a real promo tion came to Mr. James and he was made night superintendent in one of Charlotte's biggest mills. This was his real start in life, and before he was old enough to vote, Crawford James had been placed in complete charge of a mill employing a large number of people. It was while on this job that he met the girl who soon became his wife, and who has come with him, side by side, all along the way from their humble start to the high place now occupied by them in the business, social and religious life of Marion. Since coming to Marion 20 years ago, Mr. and Mrs. James have lent their best efforts and influence to every worthy movement of the community, and when any thing is to be done, the first community thought turns to Mr. and Mrs. James who have always checrfuily responded to every call and entered whoie-heartedly into every movement for the advancement of Marion j and McDowell county. For the purpose of giving tbe reader an insight into ' the life that Crawford James has lived in Marien, wo herewith give a partial list of the work that he does as indicated by his official connection with these in stitutions and organisations. Mr. James is owner cf the Elizabeth James mills; president of the Etta Paper Box company; president of the McDowell Insurance Agency; president of the Marion Chamber of Commerce; president of the Marion General Hospital; president of the Marion Lake Club: member of the board of directors of the Marion Manufacturing Company; member of the board of directors of the Hatch Full Fashioned Hosiery com pany; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Camp for Underprivileged Boys; director of the North Carolina Hosiery Association; member of the Marion School Board; chairman of the Finance Board of the First Methodist Chuich of Marion; member of the Board of Stewards of the Methodist church; member of the Board of Directors of the Marion Kiwanis Club; Attendance Committeeman of Carolinas District Kiwanis International; National Representative in the United States Chamber of Commerce for Western North Carolina; member of the District Committee of 1 Boy Scouts; Director, McDowell Produce Company; j Director, Marion Airport Corporation; Managing Director of the McPar Hosiery Mills; member of board of directors of Carolina Magazines, Inc., of Charlotte; member of the Board of Directors of the Home Build ing and Loan Association; member of the McDowell County Republican Executive Committee; director. Black Bear Trail, leading from Quebec, Canada, to Miami, Florida; managing 'director of the Hotel James, in Marion. Mr. James had, up until two months ago, served for years as head of the Red Cross in McDowell county and of the Community Chest in Marion. He also has served in many other capacities in the business, religious and social life of the community, but the above list is given because he is at present actually j and actively engaged in these various phases of our j community and business life. Many of these activities I are embraced within the business circle, and all of these have been most successful; due to the intelligent and painstaking leadership of Mr. James. Many other activities listed above are not embraced within the business circle, and it is, indeed, a labor of love to this man who devotes so much of his time and means to their advancement. Mr. James is particularly inter ested in his church work. He gives unstinted support to the civic organizations with which he is sonnected. But it is with the agencies of mercy that Mr. James finds his greatest pleasure. His work with the Red Cross, the Community Chest, the hospital, have been most interesting to him. Yet, great as has been his pleasure in serving these groups, his greatest happi ness comes in connection with his work f?r the under privileged boys. Perhaps it is because he can never forget these dark days when he himself was a boy, struggling against tremendous odds, with no privi leges at all, that causes him now to devote so much of his time and means to the training and pleasure of underprivileged boys m his community. He founded (POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT) the- camp for underprivileged bovs in his county, and ? it is believed that Crawiord James derives greater > pleasure in this work than in all other activities of his life. While we, his neighbors and associates, attempt to speak these words for Crawford James, there is another group in Marion who could tell you a much more touching story of the man than we can possibly. We are thinking of the men and women, boys and 4 girls, who work in the industries headed by Mr. James. Many of these workers have been with him ever since he started business here twenty years ago, and these are his best friends and stauncheat advocates. It is wort)':,- of especial mention just here that in all the past period of curtailment and tftft-downs in ? industry, the mills under the management of Crawford James have gone right along, the workers making "full time." The fine feelings that exist between Mr. James and his employes were given emphasis throughout that period of time since the World War ended. Many industrial sections experienced labor troubles during the Twenties, some rather serious, others being but ' flare-ups that soon passed away. But the workers ifi Mr. James' mills were never involved in any of these disputes, and not a shadow of trouble has ever been experienced in any of his plants. Mr. James gives all credit for this happy situation to his workers, while the workers in turn, are just as emphatic that all the credit is due Mr. James. While Mr. James is a leading manufacturer and a most thoroughly experienced financier, he has always ? recognized the importance of agriculture, knowing, as ail thinking men know, that agriculture is the most, important o i all activities. He knows that a cotton mil: cannot, operate unless and until the farmer grows the cotton that is to be manufactured into 'the finished jeroduct. Therefore, as the keen business man that he is, he sees the necessity of creating and maintaining conditions on the cotton farm that will enable the cot ton grower to obtain his full share of the revenues I derived from the cotton business. Perhaps it was his I study of the conditions surrounding the life and work I of the cotton grower that caused him to become so | deeply interested ir. all the problems of the farmer. | So great is his interest in agriculture and in the con ditions surrounding the families on the farm that Mr. | James made an exhaustive study of agriculture. | Practically every farmer in McDowell county knows 1 Crawford James personally and knows of his sincere i interest in their problems. The farmers will have an | understanding friend in Congress when Crawford t James becomes a member of that body of men after | next November. Genius is required when a man comes from a beginning of nine cent3 a day to the position now , occupied by Mr. James. He made the grade through ! hard work, careful investment, thorough regard for ; all those within his organization and by treating all ' people in that old fashioned, rugged honest way which stands the test of time and tide. He has been forced to learn most thoroughly the value of economy. It is said of him that he has never wasted time or money. Tens of thousands of dollars of his money have gone to che benefit of others, but it was not scattered helter skelter, nor given to people who did not deserve. That money has gone to those in real distress. That is his interest in hospital work ? that those needing hospital treatment might have it. He is known as a most liberal man, but he always takes the time and trouble to ascertain if his liberality is being extended to those who really r.eed it and who will use it in proper man ner. Even in his giving, large as the amounts have been, there has been no waste in these gifts. The same is true of the time that he has given unto others. His time is valuable-, as you must know, with so many business interests demanding his person ' al attention at all times. He has not wasted his time, yet he has never been too busy with his own affairs to refuse or hesitate to give his time when others really needed him. He has always had time to listen to the boy or girl who desired to go on to school and pursue studies fitting them for the chosen professions, and many men and women are filling responsible positions today who reached their goal be cause Crawford James stopped his own work and assisted them on their way. Mr. James has given liberally of his time in all movements of community interests, and, as every man has a hobby, Mr. James is intensely interested in hospital work. Perhaps he should have been a physician, this thought being suggested by hi3 ever present desire to relieve human suffering. As a member of Congress Mr. James would, very naturally, be saving of the Government's time and the Government's money. He wouid carry into that office these same marked characteristics that have made his personal career so. successful. He would not. in fast, he could not, vote tc give a dollar of the public money to any cause unless he was convinced that the cause was just and the placement of the money giving promise of real returns to the Government. He would apply his time and .best thought to hi3 work as a Congressman, as the representative of all the people of the district that sent him- to Congress. He would be as faithful to them as his own employes have been to him. Crawford James would, as your representative in Congress, keep in constant touch with you at al! times, and the word of the humblest citizen of the mountains would have just as much influence in his votes in Congress as would the word of the richest and most powerful man in the district. That great statesman, Herbert Hoover, will be re-elected next November. The country has been paralyzed during the past two years because a Con gross, not in harmony with President Hoover, being a Democratic Congress, has stood in the way of execution of the President's plans and policies. He needs a Congress that will work with him to the end that the American people may have the full benefit of President Hoover's fine leadership. When you vote for Crawford James for Congress, you are voting for a great busi ness man who understands the business of Govern ment, and who will stand foursquare with President Hoover in giving a real business administration of this Nation's affairs. Let us send a man to Congress from this district, who is not a candidate simply because he needs the office so he can live on the salary it pays. We have too long had such men in Congress and in other public offices. Professional Congressmen who d^end upon being elected to Congress in order that they may have a job and a salary cannot really represent the people of a district. Such men must be on the lookout 2t ail times for their personal interests, hence the public's interest is given second place in their official activities. Crawford James is not interested in the salary question. He can rsake much more money at home than he would receive from the Government as a mem ber of Congress. No man should be elected to Congress who cannot make as much money in his own business or profession as he receives as a member of Congress. In other words, the man lacking ability to conduct his own business in successful manner most assuredly can not conduct the public's business in successful manner, Crawford James is a successful man; he is careful, considerate and conscientious. Ke is able, capable, fearless. He will be a strong supporter of our President. He will truly represent the people of this district, and his experience and training have been such as to make his services most valuable during these trying days and strenuous times. Our District Convention conscripted hjm fn service and nominated hhn for C ?tigress. We offer him to you in the fullest confidence that yoa will have every cause to be prro-jd of your Representative if you < cast your vote and help to elect to the next Conffrass of the United States tkat fine mas, that successful man, that splendid leader, the Bon. Crawfsrd F. James.
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